Martin Pietrucha
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Martin Pietrucha
@mtp5
Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering/Penn State; Former sanitation worker, landscaper, and bartender; Opinions are my own; who else would own up to them?
Katılım Eylül 2009
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@janetfwv Between the sun and the heat during the first half and the thunderstorms after that, it was a bit of a trying day in someways, but still fun.
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I was at the PSU/WVU football game yesterday, and I was tickled to see that the locals made such a special effort to welcome me.
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Prior to the baseball writers dinner in New York, hanging with former New York Mets manager, Bobby Valentine.
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Professors Al-Qadi and Mason are both PSU alums. Just sayin’…
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Packed house at #TRBAM for Chair’s Plenary. Congratulation to award winners: @NathanielPFord of @JTAFLA named 2024 Sharon Banks Medal Imad L. Al-Qadi of @IL_transport named 2023 Roy W. Crum Award John M. Mason, Jr. of @PSUHarrisburg named 2023 W.N. Carey, Jr. Award
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What are some of your favourite movie posters?
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Watching The Bridge on the River Kwai on TCM, and I come to find out that the French author of the book, Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) also wrote the book Planet of the Apes (1963)
Who knew?
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Where would our transit systems be without these dedicated workers?
21st Century City@urbanthoughts11
Perhaps the most important job in the city
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@mmpadellan I once had a person sitting next to me on a flight complain about my son crying AND me helicoptering over him while crying. Can’t have it both ways…
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If you know what the hell this was for, and why someone was yelling "OK, now don't move" when you had it just right, then we are officially peeps.
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Playing The New Yorker’s “Name Drop” quiz, I got this little bon mot from my correct answer. How prescient.
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Vikash Gayah, professor of @PennStateCEE, was named the interim director of @LarsonInstitute!
Read how Gayah will “ensure LTI remains a leading institute for transportation-related research in the U.S.” ➡️ bit.ly/44aqFy9
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The slow, painful morphing of universities into technical colleges… nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/…
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I took a lot of classes earning three degrees in Civil Engineering, and I don’t remember any of this material being covered in any of those courses.
The Figen@TheFigen_
Masters twitter.com/Fieraingenieri…
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